While the high-quality iPhone camera upgrades have opened up a whole new world of shooting possibilities that were previously only possible with DSLR cameras, one of the main problems for creators now is how to store and share these videos quickly because high-quality videos are bigger, they take up more space, which makes it hard to share with your friends and family.
If you want to share a video on your iPhone but don’t want to lose quality, there are many methods to lower the size of the video. There are four different ways to do this in this article. We’ll prove to you how to perform it in each one.
How to Reduce the Size of a Recorded Video?
To make a video smaller on an iPhone, you can cut its size down while you’re making it. Record it at a lower resolution while taking the picture, and your file size will automatically be smaller. On your iPhone, here’s how:
- Step 1: Go to your iPhone’s Settings and click on the Camera button.
- Step 2: Go to the Record Video setting on your camera and verify that the resolution and frame rate are set correctly.
- Step 3: Go ahead and choose the resolution you want to use. You can record in 720p at 30 fps, which is the lowest this iPhone can do. It’s also a space-saver.
You can also see that Apple has added a note about how much space each resolution will take. It’s easy. You can use this to save space on your phone and record videos at a lower resolution. It doesn’t help if you want to record high-quality movies. After you record a video with a high resolution on your iPhone, you need to compress it so that it fits on your phone.
How can you compress a video on your iPhone after being recorded?
The “large file size” error is no more. The answer is very simple: compress your video to make it smaller in size. There is no built-in way to do this on Apple. You would need a third-party app for this. You can do that with Film, one of the best apps for editing videos. It lets you do that in just a few simple steps and doesn’t take up a lot of space on your phone.
Here are the steps:
- Step 1: Open the Film app on your iPhone.
- Step 2: Select the movie to compress from your gallery by clicking on the Camera roll.
- Step 3: This will carry you to the editing timeline.
- Step 4: Export the image at a reduced resolution (up to 480p) and save it to the gallery.
How can I compress a video for email on my iPhone?
Suppose you want to send your team a high-quality video file. Or, you can’t compress the video by lowering the resolution, but you still need to send it across. Video file sizes can’t be reduced all the time when you have to share big video files with other teams who are far away. One of the best ways is to share a link to a video after you’ve put it on a sharing app. We’ve talked about three ways:
1. Upload big files to a cloud service like Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive. Then, set the link-sharing settings for the people you want to share the video with and send them the link by email like you would for a text message.
2. Alternatively, you can share your video clip via a file sharing service such as WeTransfer, which supports file uploads up to 2GB in size. It’s also possible to upload the video to WeTransfer and get a link that your recipient can use to watch it.
3. Finally, you may publish your Film on YouTube and name it as ‘unlisted’ or ‘private’ before emailing the link to your collaborators.
How can I compress a movie on my iPhone without sacrificing quality?
Now, let’s say that you don’t want to send a video over email, but you can’t cut corners on quality because of the nature of the project, so you can’t send it. Then, what do you do? You need to know how to cut the size of the file without sacrificing the quality of the work you do. The only way to make a video shorter is to cut out or trim parts.
This will make the video smaller in both length and size. There are other ways to keep the quality of your video. You can split your video into parts and send each part to the person who wants to see it. The Film app makes it easy to trim and cut your videos quickly. Here’s how you can do it in less than 5 minutes:
- Step 1: Open the Film app on your iPhone.
- Step 2: Select the movie to compress from your gallery by clicking on the Camera roll.
- Step 3: On your video editing timeline, cut out the parts of your video that you don’t need.
- Step 4: You can also omit the video’s audio to reduce the video’s size further. Take a look at the video editing timeline, and click on the three dots next to each other on the left. Click the Volume button on your iPhone to turn off the sound in a video you’ve made.
- Step 5: Save your video in the resolution you want and share it quickly. These were four very simple ways to compress your videos on your iPhone.
This means that now you can compress and share your videos quickly and keep their quality. To learn more about editing videos on your phone, check out this video. Also, if you like to learn by watching videos, check out our YouTube channel. We show you how to make videos every day, show you how to get more money as a video creator, and show you how to make more money.
